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INVENTOR ATTORNEY Q ed slim immuq T NTHQQQ mmkamu W @E United States Patent 3,302,340 STAGGERED MULTILEVEL APARTMENT SYSTEM WITH ELEVATORS Jack 0. Chertkof, 19 W. Franklin St., Baltimore, Md. 21201 Filed Nov. 4, 1964, Ser. No. 408,936 2 Claims. (Cl. 52-30) This invention relates generally to building structure, and more particularly it pertains to a high-rise apartment system.

Multistory or highqise apartments have become very popular as they are presently built including so many convenient features. No longer in the class of one room tenements, each level is secluded and quiet and such living quarters are often purchased like individual houses by the occupants. The elevators which have greatly contributed to the success and popularity of these high-rise apartments, however, are one of the reasons for the high cost and stairways are no longer acceptable as principal means of access.

It is an object of this invention, therefore, to provide an apartment house arrangement which reduces the cost of elevator installations.

Another object of this invention is to provide a multiwing apartment which like garden-type apartments allows inter-unit trafiic without stairclirnbing and yet retains individual level privacy.

A further object of this invention is to provide an arrangement of vertcial dwellings whereby elevator stops are reduced to minimum giving in eifect express service.

Yet another object of this invention is to provide a multiwing high-rise apartment arrangement having handy access to incinerators and like facilities without much duplication thereby reducing the cost of such installations.

Other objects and attendant advantages of this invention will become more readily apparent and understood from the following detailed specification and accompanying drawings in which:

FIG. 1 is a floor plan of a three-wing high-rise apartment incorporating features of this invention; and

FIG. 2 is a side elevation, mainly diagrammatic, viewed in the direction of the arrows 22 of FIG. 1 showing the arrangement of several levels of the three wings.

The vertical house and apartment group as illustrated in the drawings consists of a plurality of three or more wings A, B, C arranged to abut on a common vertical central core 12.

This core 12 is equipped with elevators 14 and 16, and including as usually required by fire regulations, an enclosed stairway 18 having entrance doors 19.

Utilities, gas, water, sewer lines, electric service and the like may be brought up this core 12 if desired. An incinerator, for example, is shown at reference 20.

Inter-wing ramps 22A, 22B, and 22C are shown around the perimeter of the elevator or elevators 14 and 16 and the stair enclosure 18. These ramps 22A, 22B, and 22C are primarily semi-height of a floor. In other words, the ramp from one wing to the next wing may be a quarter or third of its distance in rise between the winged elevations of a similar floor; the floors or levels of one wing being at a different height from those of the connecting wing in all cases.

3,302,340 Patented Feb. 7, 1967 In the example shown in FIGS. l and 2, the floor to ceiling height or level interval is given at nine feet. However, it can be eight and one-half, ten, or twelve feet, that is immaterial. The number of wings, A, B, or C, too, can be more than three. The arrangement 10 can include four, five or six win-gs depending on the width thereof at the abutment with the center core 12.

The condition of entry to each wing A, B, or C is ideal because the psychological effect of outdoors and daylight at the junction around the perimeter of the core, the ramps 22A, 22B, and 22C being practically out-of-doors and of moderate rise.

Each wing level has its own landing 24 (24A for the A Win-g, 24B for the B wing, etc.) and these are almost completely private to the groups of apartment units 28 in a wing and accessible by corridors 26.

The ramps 22A, 22B, 220 each permit the elevator or elevators 14 and 16 to skip-stop or have no openings at all on some floors. For example, an elevator could either start at the zero lobby and go to the third floor and thence to the seventh and finally the eleventh floor. People living on the first or second floor would then walk down the fractional level ramps from the third floor opening, while the people on the fourth and fifth could walk up. People getting off the elevator at the eighth floor elevator opening could Walk. down to the sixth or seventh or walk up to the ninth or tenth and so forth as a multiple, all with little effort.

This arrangement, it will be noted, decreases the capital investment by eliminating the openings, closings, stops, relays, which contribute to elevator cost and maintenance. Secondly, it accumulates the people at the openings which are provided and gives faster elevator service.

The centralized point of disposal of trash and garbage as furnished by the incinerator 20 of the core 12 reduces the walk required since each corridor has access thereto in all wings.

A stairway 30 is shown at the far end of each corridor 26 in case the wings A, B, and C are made longer than permitted by code and the balconies 32 and boiler rooms 34 are depicted to illustrate the completeness of the deslgn.

Obviously, many other modifications and variations of the present invention are possible in light of the above teachings. It is, therefore, to be understood that within the scope of the appended claims the invention may be practiced otherwise than as specifically described.

What is claimed is:

1. A high-rise apartment arrangement, comprising, structure forming at least three wings all having a plurality of floor levels at a different. height, with the floor levels of adjacent wings being in staggered relationship with one another, a common abutment core for said wings, ramps of fractional level height rise connecting the level of one wing to a level on the next wing in consecutive height sequence so as to form the periphery of said abutment core, and vertically arranged elevator means positioned in said core and having vertical stations at fewer levels than the number of levels in said consecutive height sequence.

2. A high-rise apartment arrangement, comprising, structure forming at 'least three wings all having a plurality of floor levels at a different height, with the floor levels of adjacent wings being in staggered relationship with one another, a common abutment core for said Wings, ramps of fractional level height rise connecting the level of one wing to a level on the next Wing in consecutive heigiht sequence so as to form the periphery of said abutment core, vertically arranged elevator means positioned in said core and having vertical stations at fewer levels than the number of levels in said consecu tive height sequence, and landing areas communicating with said Wings and said ramps.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS FRANK L. ABBOTT, Primary Examiner.

10 JOHN E. MURTAGH, Examiner. 

1. A HIGH-RISE APARTMENT ARRANGEMENT, COMPRISING, STRUCTURE FORMING AT LEAST THREE WINGS ALL HAVING A PLURALITY OF FLOOR LEVELS AT A DIFFERENT HEIGHT, WITH THE FLOOR LEVELS OF ADJACENT WINGS BEING IN STAGGERED RELATIONSHIP WITH ONE ANOTHER, A COMMON ABUTMENT CORE FOR SAID WINGS, RAMPS OF FRACTIONAL LEVEL HEIGHT RISE CONNECTING THE LEVEL OF ONE WING TO A LEVEL ON THE NEXT WING IN CONSECUTIVE HEIGHT SEQUENCE SO AS TO FORM THE PERIPHERY OF SAID ABUTMENT CORE, AND VERTICALLY ARRANGED ELEVATOR MEANS POSITIONED IN SAID CORE AND HAVING VERTICAL STATIONS AT FEWER LEVELS THAN THE NUMBER OF LEVELS IN SAID CONSECUTIVE HEIGHT SEQUENCE. 